Horrific pictures have been posted online showing some of the alleged victims.

AFP also reports that the opposition Syrian National Council has called for an emergency UN security council meeting to discuss the massacre.

Meanwhile, a group of 43 dignitaries, including former British foreign secretary David Miliband, former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown, and the Italian writer Umberto Eco, has urged the United Nations to unite around the Arab League’s peace plan for ending the violence in Syria.

8.28am: (all times GMT) Welcome to Middle East Live. Activists claim more than a dozen people have been killed in Homs after the UN-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan, left Syria without securing an agreement to stop the violence.

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